OG-SAN: I HATE HATE

 Posted On March 13 for Rafu Shimpo

By WARREN FURUTANI

Last week, master community organizer Diane Ujiiye convened a Zoom meeting of 55 people to discuss the exploding anti-Asian hate issue. The discussion centered on what was happening in the community but its FOCUS was solutions.

I, along with fellow Movement OG David Monkawa, was asked to put the issue in a historical and community context. David hammered home example after example where the API community fought back against such anti-Asian attacks.

From Chinese railroad workers pushing back against their stark reality of a “Chinaman’s chance.” To Nikkei demonstrating and protesting conditions in America’s WWII concentration camps. To the Vincent Chin case that, like the Chol Soo Lee case, the redress/reparations campaign and others, galvanized the API community.

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